• Some choose the subject because it is beautiful, others because it is practical, and yet others for some combination of these reasons.
  • Mathematics is wonderful training for the mind, a great training if you are thinking of being a lawyer for example, and it has an increasing range of applications, from the study of the genome and climate change to financial mathematics and medical statistics.
  • Mathematics has always been the language of physics, and, with the advent of computer modeling, is an essential component of almost all science.